This week on “Inside the Vatican,” a look back at the tense 2014 and 2015 synods on the family and what Pope Francis decided in “Amoris Laetitia”
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Pope Francis’ private diaries to be published by the Vatican
To the astonishment of the Vatican and the world, Pope Francis has delivered yet another surprise: He kept a private diary from Dec. 20, 1992, to Aug. 18, 2024, just nine months before his death.
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From Vietnamese refugee to Australia’s first Asian bishop: Vincent Long on faith, migration and synodality
Just over 46 years ago, an 18-year-old fled Vietnam in a boat with more than 100 other people. Today he is Australia’s first Asian bishop.
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‘SNL’ and the radical humility of live comedy
‘Saturday Night Live’ is its most human when performers break.
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Pope Leo calls for ‘culture of negotiation’ at meeting of North and South American leaders
This was the fourth of the synodal style encounters that were inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti,” published in October 2020.
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Cardinal Czerny awarded inaugural Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal
The first Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal, created by the pope’s alma mater, Villanova University, will be awarded to Cardinal Michael Czerny, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
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Pope Leo’s visit to France likely to attract a million people
The four-day visit, which starts on Sept. 25, will include popemobile rides, an open-air Mass in central Paris and a stop in Lourdes, one of Catholicism’s most important pilgrimage sites.
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A way out of the Vatican II liturgy wars: Priests should stick to the rubrics
Priests who depart from the rubrics of the Mass may mean well. But Catholics should consider why both Popes Leo and Francis have called such deviations a problem.
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Pope Leo: Catholics cannot be ‘unengaged spectators’ amid ‘injustice, discrimination and violence’
In a new series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council’s pastoral constitution “Gaudium et Spes,” Pope Leo said the faithful are called to leave behind “all passivity and indifference” toward current events.